With the wonderful world of Google come amazing and extraordinary things that one is able to find. Sometimes I think we all take for granted the power that technology has allowed us to possess, and the massive amount of information at our fingertips. Whether you want to find a recipe for tapas, or where the best skiing on earth is , just type it in and presto- you have an answer!!! Why am I going off on this you might be asking yourself? It’s because  I often type in our business or family name to see what pops up on Google, and just to make sure I don’t have a convicted felon in the family (thankfully not yet!) somewhere out there that might try to contact me for bail money.

Today however, in a strange twist of fate, I stumbled across an interesting little nugget of information in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. It seems the stars aligned many years ago for my passion and ultimately my career in the wine world, as I discovered one of my ancestors was a wine merchant in Philadelphia in the 1750′s! I was shocked to read about this because the PLCB is one of our main clients, so apparently my relative Samuel planted that seed in Philadelphia many years ago.  I’ll have to do a bit of research on this but I’m almost positive we are Pennsylvania’s oldest “wine merchants.” I’m hoping someone will be able to verify this, but if not, I’ll definitely being raising my wine glass to Mister Samuel Grisley and thanking him for establishing our name in the wine business all those years ago!

Don’t you just love history?

Cheers,

Michael